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While the Labour Party’s conference dominated the coverage in the UK over the past few days, its German sister party, the SPD, held its own ‘mini’ conference over the weekend. Opposition to TTIP – the EU-US free trade deal currently being negotiated – …

If you read our press summary, you will have noticed that the debate around the US-EU free trade deal (TTIP) is really picking up in Germany, with even the euro-critical AfD coming out against key elements of the deal ahead of the European elections.Of…

David Cameron wants to use the gathering of G8 leaders in Northern Ireland next week to launch formal negotiations on the planned EU-US free trade agreement. But progress depends on breaking the deadlock in talks today over France’s insistence that any…

Could the UK sucessfully negotiate a trade deal with the US?Yesterday MEPs voted on a resolution to back defensive measures to exclude cultural and some agricultural products, such as genetically modified foods from a proposed free trade deal with the …

Here’s a game for you. Guess who said the following: 11 March (part one)”We can’t leave the management of migratory flows only to the technocrats and the courts. We need a common discipline for border controls. It must be possible to sanction, su…

Last week in Brussels, we organised a very interesting event looking at trade between the EU and Asia – the importance of which can hardly be over-stated given Europe’s, shall we say, current economic predicament.At the event, Conservative MEP Syed Kam…

For those of us obsessing about EU politics, 2011 is likely to be remembered as the year when the EU’s two flagship projects – the Single Currency and free movement – came under unparalleled strains.The former is based on utterly flawed economics, whil…